These darned old computers

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Tue Aug 27 04:46:00 2002

 Bingo ! I took both cases off and at first was dismayed since the "360k" has
a 30 pin edge connector and takes it's power from the host machine. Then I
saw that the TEAC drive had a 34 pin edge connector that was plugged into
the card with the 30 pin edge-c and a standard 5 1/4 floppy power plug.

 The 502 has a dummy faceplate for a second floppy and 2 data 34pin
connectors and 2 standard 3 1/2 floppy plug types as you say and a
whopping big PSU that must support 2 drives. There's one single square 2pin
plug which doesn't have any visible connector on either drive.
 The only mod needed would be to replace the small power with a large type.

 That's great. When you don't have a HD, 2 floppies sure makes things
easier. I recall with no pleasure spending hours doing the disk-change
mambo copying programs off magazine disks on my Atari ST.

Lawrence

> Rumor has it that Lawrence Walker may have mentioned these words:
> > In referring to the "360k" do you mean the model (RS 25-1060) that shipped
> >IIRC for the 1000HX ( ?) ? I just checked my COCO M.502 drive and the edge
> >connector is slightly different. It would be nice to have a useable 2nd drive
> >for my CoCos.
>
> Larry,
>
> The case itself is not compatible with the CoCos, as the ribbon cable has
> extra connectors for powering the drive... If you take the drive out of the
> case, it'll be the standard connectors (except maybe power - just hack in a
> standard "big plug" if necessary) and you can use the drive no problem with your
> CoCos.
>
> With OS-9, you'll just need to sysgen a new boot floppy with the 360K DSDD 60Hz
> /d1 driver; with RS-DOS you'll need to patch the ROMs, then reburn if you want
> the changes permenant. Beware: The RS-DOS ROMS assume that both drives are the
> same size, so only do the mods if you have 2 360K drives!
>
> HTH,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
>
>
> --
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
> zmerch_at_30below.com
>
> What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
> and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
>


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